Web Knowledge Turbine as a Proposal for Personal and Professional Self-Organisation in Complex Times: Application to Higher Education

• Published in: Journal of information technology research Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 70 - 90
• Main Authors: Royo, Enrique Rubio, McKay, Susan Cranfield, Nelson-Santana, Jose Carlos, Rodríguez, Ramiro N Delgado, Ocon-Carreras, Antonio A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey IGI Global 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adaptive systems; Deep learning; Education, Higher; Higher education; Information technology; Infrastructure; Internet; Knowledge; Learning; Social change; Society; Teaching; Trade and professional associations; Turbines; Webs; Spain
• ISSN: 1938-7857; 1938-7865
• DOI: 10.4018/JITR.2018010105

This article describes a proposal for sustainable way to adapt to current complex process of global transformation, using the ‘Web Knowledge Turbine' (WKT) as a self-organised ecosystem for the co-creation of personal and collective narratives. The authors contemplate all human social systems as Complex Adaptive Systems with the capacity for self-organisation derived from a permanent learning process. Accordingly, a shift in the focus of teaching programmes from mere mechanisms of knowledge transmission, to a process focused on learning and in particular, a process of self-directed, connected, and deep learning which has at its core the profile of the eLearner as the central protagonist. The cornerstone of this process is a Complex Ecosystem of Personal Knowledge (CEPK) which will support teaching at an undergraduate level, progressively and transversely, from its outset. Considering the classroom as a networked community of learners whose objective is not only to gain a command of a particular subject (WHAT content do they need to learn?), but also HOW and WHY they need to learn it.